The world’s first Father Christmas-friendly chimney has been erected in the
Cotswolds at the request of six-year-old Leo Park, above. The youngster’s
concern that the tubby present-giver would never fit down the slimline
chimney of their new home led his mother Jade to call in the architects and
commission an extra-wide stack. This might seem like a perfect example of
our modern pandering to childish whims, but when it comes to saucing up
Santa, us Brits have a fine and distinguished history. Just consider
everyone’s favourite myth-maker, J. R. R. Tolkien. In 1920, for his then
three-year-old son, the Lord